The Progress., 1887-12-10
{brothers) were killed while chopping wood
near Paris, Tex. Two negroes had been ar

near Paris, Tex Two negroes had been ar
rested on suspicion.
ADv1cEs of the 1st from Fort Smith, Ark,
say that within four days seven murders
had been committed in the Ghoctaw nation.
In his annual report on the lst the Com
missioner of Agriculturelsays that the work
OF his department. in suppressing pneu-
monia among cattle progressed favorably
during the year, and he believes that this
dangerous plague can be exterminated by
the end of the next fiscal year.
DR.. GEORGE SCHRADY, of New York. who
attended General Grant during his last ILL
ness, said on the 1st that there could be no
doubt that the disease from which the
Grown Prince of Germany is suffering is Of
cancerous nature.
The public-debs statement on the LIST
shows theNtotal debt to be $1,675, ,8l6,66O;
cash In treasury, $55, ,25S, ,7O1; debt less
cash in treasury, 81, ,24O, 1873, O52 Increase
during November, 81, 49O,35O Decrease
since June 80, 1887, $39, ,245, ,684.
AN excursion of $50 Scandinavians from
the Northwest, en- route to the old country,
stopped in Chicago on the 1st
IHE Lawrence Hotel, six business houses
and three dwellings were burned at Brook
vile, Kan, on the 1st and four men per-
ished in the flames
The annual report of the Comptroller of
the currency, issued on the LIST, shows that
the total number of National banks organ
ized,up to October 81 was 8, 800, of which
G25 had gone into voluntary liquidation and
119 had failed. leaving in operation at that
date 8, 3,O6l
JAMES YANcY, of Scott County Ark. ran
away with his employers wife to Indian
Territory. The couple were overtaken by
the irate husband on the LIST and a fight
took place, in which both men were NOR
tally wounded. s-
BRONZE statue Of President Garfield was
unvailed on the LIST at Cincinnati, the mill
tia and soldiers societies taking part in the
parade. Governor Foraker and others made
addresses .'.
CHARLES PRATT on the LIST declared to be
unfounded report that the Standard Oil
Company contemplated building q trunk
pipeline from Chicago to New York.
A TRAMP named OBrien, who was impris
oned at Alamosa, Col, for criminal as
sault upon young woman of that city, was
taken from Jail on the LIST aud lynched
The new stock yards at St. Joseph, Mo-,
comprising 40 acres, were opened on the
lst They cost 81, 600, ,OOO and are said to
be complete in every detail. ~.
Two NEGROES were killed and many others
were injured in fight with whites at Cat
Island, Ark, on the lst The unfor.unates
had been arrested charged with insulting
white women, and at the trial were shot
down.
JAcos SHARP, the New York briber, was
released from custody on the 1st under
bonds of $4,000.
IT was reported on the LIST that the big
gas wells in the northwestern part of Ohio
uyor loci 1nir
OIL wells The news created CONSERVATION
at Toledo, where natural gas is largely used
for heating purposes
ALEXANDER TAYLOR, who has been in the
country six weeks, and has been driving
mail wagon three weeks, was arrested on
the 1st in New York for robbing tine mails,
and confessed his guilt The drafts he pur-
loined aggregated $4,000
THREE train-robbers' caves, full of stolen
property, were discovered near Ell Paso,
Tex. on the I'd by United States officials.
NEARLY the entire business portion of
Eminence, Ky:, was destroyed by fire on
the I'd
The Kirkham & Olmstead block at Spring.
field, Mass, was Quilted by fire on the I'd
Loss, 100000 '.
SOME of the malsters in Milwaukee. Wis.
withdrew from the union on the I'd and
returned to work in their old places The
strike was practically at an end
By the explosion of locomotive boiler
on the I'd near East Mahanoy Junction, Pa,
four men were killed
In the trial of John Arensdorf at Sioux
City, Ia, on the I'd for the murder of Rev. G..
G. Haddock, Byron Webster, deputy rev.
enue collector, swore positively that Arens-
dorf was not in the Shepherd saloon at
Sh0+ ~ %I,4
refutes that of Arensdorf Hagenan and
Carson, by which an alibi was sought to be
proved 0..l.al
Two CASES of leprosy Of the most loath-
some type were discovered on the I'd at
Rathsay, Mimi q.. r.Fea.s,
In Darlington County, s. c., on the I'd
John Edwards, aged eighteen years, ordered
his father, Fred Edwards, to stop beating
his mother Not being obeyed he shot at
him with gun, killing his mother, fatally
wounding his sister and slightly hurting his
father.
THE cotton crop for this year is estimated
at 6, 4SO, 900 bales
The story that foreigners chiefly con-
trolled the Massachusetts, fishery business is
disproved by statistics, which show that Of
the 10, ,435 people engaged 10000 are
Americans. --. l--
DURING the seven days ended on the I'd
there were 215 business failures in the
United States, against 2O5 the previous
seven days
JAKE Sn1oNs (colored) was hanged on the
I'd at Mount Pleasant, s. c., for the murder
of Mike Plottkin, Jewish merchant
LEVI KELLER, aged sixty three years, and
his wife, aged sixty years, residing at vir-
ginsville, Pa, died on the ID within two
in1nutes of each other Keller, several
weeks ago, predicted that they would both
die when they did ~
JUMPING DOG. the Indian. arrested for set
ting fire to the Cheyenne agency, killed his
two guards on the I'd and then committed
suicide = .s.-.~.t f.. ..<
The first annual report of the Interstate
Commerce Commission was made public on
the I'd The report says that the operation
of the law has in general been beneficial;
complaints of unjust discrimination by
railways are less frequent; the pooling OF
freights and of railway earnings has come
to an end, and, as a rule, obedience to the
law is general.
The wheat crop of the Northwest was on
the I'd said to be 2,OOO 900 bushels
Two MEN entered the St ClOnd HotAl at